Lidar flights over the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas found 432 geometric earthworks, 396 of them undocumented, and the authors in Nature estimate the region holds 24,000 to 30,000 such structures.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia combined agar, zinc and tannic acid into a self-assembling edible film; in tests published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry it roughly doubled shelf life and cut water loss from 30 to 13 percent.
The moon's shadow crossed Siberia, Greenland, Iceland and Spain on 12 August 2026, and more than 15 million people live inside the narrow band where the sun vanished completely, Smithsonian magazine reports.
Images published in Nature on 5 August resolve solar structures under 20 kilometres wide beside a sunspot, and researchers at the US National Solar Observatory say the swirls may explain the corona's millions of degrees.
GPS collars on 59 mountain lions and cameras at more than 500 sites, matched against nearly 1,000 crashes from 2020 to 2025, point to a 67 percent lower chance of hitting a deer where the cats are common.
Totality lasts at most two minutes and 18 seconds along an 8,260-kilometre track, while partial phases reach from Alaska to West Africa, with 94 percent coverage in Dublin.
In greenhouse trials led by the University of Texas at El Paso, a low-dose leaf spray of manganese oxide and chitosan restored growth in salt-stressed tomato plants; salinity threatens up to 30 percent of the world's irrigated cropland.
Lidar flights covering less than three percent of Amazonia recorded 396 previously unknown earthworks, forcing a sharp upward revision of how many people lived in the rainforest before European contact.
Filming 116 bonobos and chimpanzees before competitive feeding, researchers found that friendly contact beforehand predicted peaceful sharing afterwards.
Fast radio bursts reveal baryons stretching four million light-years from galaxy groups – much further out than simulations predicted.
The 2026 Europhysics Prize goes to three researchers whose work added a wholly new branch to a field physicists thought was settled a century ago.
Researchers argue Theta Eridani really did shine ten times brighter for a millennium, and trace it to mass flowing between two stars locked in a very tight orbit.
With little more than gas and a 10,000-volt spark, a Sydney PhD candidate has recreated the cosmic dust that may have carried life's chemistry across space.